Sample sentences for ARCHETYPE

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Definition

a very typical or the original example of something

She identifies six boyfriend archetypes.

archetypes = different types of typical examples

They are archetypal images—judging, punishing, pitiless.
Peter Shaffer -- Equus
It was an archetypal force, as Chiron would say—something that could never really die.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena
I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn't some faction archetype.
Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
He was the archetypal petit-bourgeois, cautious, complacent, mean.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
This"—she paused for emphasis—"is the archetype of an inclined plane...... You'll not find its equal anywhere.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
Archetypal Germans, the odd Jew, the boys from the east.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
He looked like the archetypal sinister magician that seems to be a requirement in so many bad Aturan plays.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
An archetype of the unknown.
Rodman Philbrick -- Freak the Mighty
Chiron calls them archetypes.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
It was the archetype of archetypes; Paralon was the reality that the legend of Camelot aspired to be.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
Like some archetype of the universal unconscious, the image of the gentleman caller haunted our small apartment.
Tennessee Williams -- The Glass Menagerie
She was the embodiment of that Victorian archetype, Constant Reader.
Stephen King -- Misery
This is in some ways the archetypal Lois Weisberg story.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
I have never seen anything in the real world to suggest the Ancient Mysteries are anything other than legend—a recurring mythological archetype.
Dan Brown -- The Lost Symbol
Though untrained as an architect, he came up with a design that was simple, memorable, and archetypal.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
As Dr. Jung points out, the theory of the archetypes is by no means his own invention.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
The conditions of verse in different languages vary so widely as to make any versified translation of a poem but an imperfect reproduction of the archetype.
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
Wily veterans, on the other hand, will absorb those details, or possibly overlook them, to find the patterns, the routines, the archetypes at work in the background.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
And no wonder: political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on the fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or thatpolitical kitsch.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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